Best Unflattering Poems

Skimming through paragraphs,
I seem to stretch time and shrink my attention 
Underlining words I can't grasp
With my limited span of concentration,
Creating art I can't explain 
Stick men and asymmetrical shapes, 
Spiralling into mazes and dotted lines 
Lost in an alphabet jungle. 
Encircling page numbers, 
Decorating...

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I bent down to pick up a penny from the frozen ground.
I could smell myself, the acrid stench of sweat and soot,
the taint of vapored vagrancy
that marked my movements, masking me from the reality that used to be.
I hate me and what I am, more...

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I do not love for love,
Nor will I hate for hate.
Cannot, I, feel for you,
To just reciprocate.
Unflattering as is,
Unempathetic me,
An honest truth still is
Most complimentary....

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A MOTHER’S WORDS

A mother’s words can be hurtful
Or make you feel high
They can give you strength and courage
Or make you want to die

A mother’s words stay with you
When you are far away
They can be words of wisdom
Or ones to spoil your day

My mother’s words still...

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When It Rains It Pours 

Idiomatic sayings are such a delightful way of expressions,
The truth in them may sometimes stretch our imagination..

When it rains, it pours is one such expressive gem of wisdom..
When troubles in numbers mirror realism in a weather phenomenon..  

Here in...

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She wasn't clever or cool
allowed to stay home from school
within the four walls
of the house where she ruled
reducing her social scene to the bare minimal
as her knowledge and know-how didn't develop at all
with activities limited and experience dormant
she failed to be interesting, staying dense and...

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You were seduced by silicate reflections,
unflattering images
of your perceived epidermal imperfections 
The bedroom mirror showed you
your deepest fear
It's crystalline voice told you
what you wanted to hear
Enhance your beauty
surgically
Change your outer self
cosmetically
But the silicate mirror lied,
it didn't tell you the whole truth
about shedding some of your...

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“In the craft of a rhyme, there’s no loss in the time”

Sitting at my desk, gray walls, unflattering
as the fluorescent lighting brings boredom
to the page as I challenge myself to write

“In this cubicle I stay, among all forms of gray”

Free verse or rhyme, it matters...

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overladen snow covered crackle and crunch
though, this skeptic owned a doubtful hunch
that such 24/7 round the clock whether coverage
     would make laughingstock of forecasting
     how Jack Frost feigned being out to lunch

and merely his
   ...

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I prayed to God hoping he’d send me a distraction.
Then I just stood around, and well, nothin’ happened.

So I said, “This just proves you don’t really exist,
and it leaves no excuse not to take the initiative.”

So I wrote you a postcard postmarked from Hell,
and I...

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A Perfect Day Never Ends (or, If Chloe was a Poet)

The lazy breeze swoops in through the grassy lawn, tickles our necks,
barely a whisper; sitting back-to-back,
we exchange ideas for your next photo.
Chiaroscuro, maybe, of the canopy; an unbroken shadow.
I don't know. I dabble.
But I write...

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At midnight tonight, adieu 2015!
The scandal that’s  1MDB, with its many twists and turns, continued throughout  2015…
Venomous charges and contercharges hit the headlines unabated through this year..
The on-going saga, with its numerous side developments, serve up a fascinating read…
Day after day, to this...

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Our God is bountiful because
He is the epitome of pious,
the paragon of virtue
and the abridgment of righteousness.

Rising from amidst the flame
of hope and unprecedented 'happiness'
a soul all too great
for we are his creatures 
And he- our creation!

The 'unwavering' presence of Him
with his abode in our...

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dousing your non-kinky hair
with peroxide in hopes of forming curly kinks
and without manipulation
the matted strands
finally intertwine
except your Peroxide Dreads
don’t resemble mind
            limp and still slightly stringy
        ...

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She exudes the struggle of acquiring autonomy from her “faux mother” charmingly characterized. dramatized, and energized by Jamie Lee Curtis. The ladder reputable, suitable and quantifiable role as  Doctor Tess Coleman transfixed at the larger than life superb therapist.
     Despite...

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